Tuesday, 30 December 2014

Dorchester is the county town of Dorset, a quiet haven of shops, pubs
and Roman ruins - but there are also ghosts, phantoms and spooks of many
kinds.
This book looks at the ghosts that haunt this town. Jordan
Godwinstone has visited the haunted properties and investigate the
spooky goings on. In this book we meet a phantom Roman, the spectre of
the vengeful Judge Jeffreys and the colourful ghost of a vicar who
returns to his old church - among others.
The “Bretwalda Ghost Files” series seeks to look at some of the best
known or best authenticated hauntings the have been reported.

About the Author
Jordan Godwinstowe has been studying ghosts for the past 30 years.
He began by investigating ghosts to pass the evenings while away from
home on business trips, but more recently has been undertaking journeys
specifically to carry out investigations into reputedly haunted
buildings. He has a vast archive of photos and witness statements about
hauntings and ghosts of many different kinds. Now he brings his
extensive expertise to bear on the Bretwalda Ghost Files.

Lurking among the forested hills of East Africa is said to be a
bear-like animal of unparalleled power and ferocity. It can kill a man
with a blow of its clawed foot, it feasts on children, sheep and goats,
but most terrifying of all is the fact that it eats only the brains of
its victims. This is the description usually given of the Nandi Bear.
But does the animal really exist?

There are eyewitness reports, footprints and the mangled bodies of
victims to prove the existence of the Nandi Bear, but as yet nobody has
ever caught one, killed one or produced definitive evidence of its
existence. Science refuses to accept that this elusive beast really
exists, but those who live in the forested hills have no doubts. They
walk in fear of the creatures.

In this book cryptid expert Larry Jaffer reviews the evidence for
this mysterious beast and comes to some surprising conclusions.

Cryptids are animals, or plants, which are believed by some people
to exist, but which have not been accepted as real by the wider
scientific community. These cryptids are animals which have been seen,
and sometimes photographed, but for which no definitive evidence has
been found. This series of Cryptid Casebooks explores the world of the
cryptids.

About the Author
Larry Jaffer has long had an interest in the fortean mysteries that
surround us. He grew up in the Surrey when the Surrey Puma hit the
headlines, and went out in search of that elusive beast - without
success. Since then he has researched a myriad of other cryptids,
including Sasquatch, the sea serpent, the Beast of Bodmin and others. He
has also investigated UFO sightings and tracked down numerous ghosts
and poltergeists. He has a voluminous archive of witness interviews,
photos and other data to back up his writings on the subjects of the
unusual, paranormal and downright odd.

Monday, 29 December 2014

Henry VIII was a self-centered, psychopath, without conscious or
remorse, who did exactly the right thing at the right time for the wrong
reasons?
This book by a leading politician looks at the series of political
killings carried out by arguably Britain’s most ruthless and
blood-soaked monarch: Henry VIII.
By studying the reasons for the judicial murders of figures such as
Thomas More, Anne Boleyn, Thomas Cromwell and a host of other victims,
this book seeks to show why it was the Henry indulged in show trials and
summary executions in a way that neither his predecessor nor successors
did.
Was Henry VIII just a run of the mill ruthless tyrant who disposed
of anyone who opposed him, or was there more to it? Was he a psychopath?
This book looks at the evidence that he had a psychopathic personality
from the outset but which became more marked with his advancing years
and ill health. Did Henry’s VIII serious jousting accident in 1536 cause
brain damage that lowered his inhibitions and give full reign to an
increasingly paranoid and psychopathic personality?
Henry’s break with Rome was in the author’s view inevitable and
beneficial, but examines to what extent was his penchant for killing was
the result of purely realpolitik considerations or because of his
psychopathic personality and declining heath?
This book traces Henry’s career as a killer, explaining what drove
him to resort to such actions and whether England became a better or
worse place for having had a serial killer as monarch.

About the Author
Gerard Batten is a Member of the European Parliament for London for
the UK Independence Party. He was first elected in 2004, re-elected in
2009, and elected for a third term in May 2014.
He was a founder member of the UK Independence Party in 1993, and
has served as a Party spokesman on Defence and Security, Immigration,
and Home Affairs.
He has written articles and booklets on a wide range of political
subjects and has two other books published by Bretwalda Press:
Inglorious Revolution (2013), and The Road to Freedom (2014)
Inglorious Revolution was co-authored with Pavel Stroilov and charts
how the English Constitution was subverted by Britain’s membership of
the European Union.
The Road to Freedom lays out the case for Britain’s unconditional and unilateral withdrawal from the European Union.
This, his latest book, is his first foray into a purely historical
subject and was written as light relief from the world of politics (or
so he thought at the time of starting it).

Sunday, 28 December 2014

JFK, the Bilderberg Group and the New World Order – conspiracy
theories abound on today’s internet, but they are nothing new. Taking a
long-term view reveals century after century of covert conspiracies,
murder plots and political intrigues. The history of the world is
riddled with hidden agendas, scheming politicians and secretive
organisations.

Did the U.S. government fake the 9/11 terror attacks? Was the
British establishment behind the death of Diana, Princess of Wales?
Conspiracy theories like these may be a modern phenomenon, but the basic
idea – that world events are controlled by cynically duplicitous
schemers – is as old as history. When the heir to the English throne
died in 1120, they said it was an accident – but it was an accident from
which certain people benefited a great deal. When the Nazis invaded
Poland in 1939, it was in response to blatant Polish aggression... which
just happened to be the work of Nazi soldiers dressed in Polish
uniforms. As Niccolò Machiavelli said 500 years ago, “the end justifies
the means”. History is often dismissed as a dull subject, but it leaps
into all-too-contemporary life when seen through the eyes of a
Conspiracy Theorist! This fast-paced account tells you everything you
need to know about the convenient accidents, false flag operations and
hidden agendas that have shaped the course of history.

CONTENTS

Preface by Nick Redfern

Chapter 1: A brief introduction to conspiracy theories

Chapter 2: False flag incidents

Chapter 3: They acted alone - or did they?

Chapter 4: Hidden agendas

Chapter 5: Convenient deaths

Chapter 6: Secret identities

Chapter 7: The Illuminati and others

Chapter 8: Rewriting history

Chapter 9: Chronology of Conspiracy

About the Author
Andrew May is a former defence scientist with an MA from Cambridge
University and a PhD from Manchester University. His thirty year career
spanned academia, the civil service and the defence industry. He has
worked on advanced technology research in Farnborough, strategic
planning in Whitehall and operational analysis for a large defence
company. He is now based in the South-West of England where he works as a
freelance writer and consultant.

Monday, 22 December 2014

The village of Canon Frome nestles among the rolling hills of
Herefordshire. Today it is a quiet, rural place, but in 1645 bloody war
came here as Roundhead faced Cavalier in a brutal struggle that left the
land strewn with the dead and maimed.
The siege of the manor housewas one of the final clashes of the
English Civil War, taking place soon after King Charles lost the key
Battle of Naseby. The defending Royalists had been occupying the manor
house for over two years by the time the army of David Leslie, Earl of
Leven, arrived to take it from then. What followed was one of the most
savage sieges fought during the English Civil War.
This book brings an exciting new look to the English Civil War. The
course of the campaign is given, but the emphasis is on the Battle
itself and the men who fought there. There are analyses of weapons,
tactics and strategies, and a study of the commanders. The course of the
battle is followed with explanation of how it relates to the ground
today. The aftermath of the battle, its effects and importance to the
progress of the war are then described.
The “Bretwalda Battles” series has been running with increasing success as printed books and as ebooks for five years.

About the Author
Leonard James is an author of military books. He comes from a
military family that has fought in every major war since at least the
Crimean War, and probably before that. His forebears were mostly
cavalrymen, though his father served in the RAF. Leonard has made a
particular study of battlefields in Britain, walking over dozens of them
to get an eye for ground. He has also handled genuine and replica
weapons to better understand the use of pre-modern weapons and the men
who wielded them.

While Douglas was happy
with the number of aircraft that had been shot down by the Duxford Wing, he was
not at allhappy with the way things had
gone during the afternoon. In his usual dogmatic way he forcibly expressed to
the AOC that he felt let down in that the squadrons had been called into the
air too late. He also complained that in his opinion the policy of letting 11
Group squadrons fight the battle, while keeping 12 Group squadrons in reserve,
was fundamentally flawed.

Douglas’s theory was
that as soon as the Luftwaffe began to assemble on the other side of the
Channel, the12 Group squadrons should be scrambled and then head south. This
would enable the Luftwaffe to be attacked while 11 Group squadrons were getting
off the ground and gaining height.

This was contrary to
Fighter Command’s established and carefully thought-out plan, but Douglas saw
his Big Wing theory as being complementary to the squadrons of 11 Group rather
than in opposition.

In Douglas’s mind there
was also another important factor that needed to be taken into consideration to
ensure success and as ever, he was not at all reluctant to share his opinion.
Control, he felt, had to come from the centre at Fighter Command Headquarters
in Stanmore rather than from Group controllers.

It was only the C-in-C
who had a complete picture of what was going on. Group commanders were limited
to their own areas, butincoming raids
often overlapped Group boundaries. This presented problems when squadrons from
one Group crossed into the territory of another. Douglas of course was not the
only one to identify the flaw in the plan, but he was one of the most vocal in
his criticism of it.

Dowding, however, did
not see the need for a comprehensive Command control until very late on, by
which time the differences between Park and Leigh-Mallory had festered to the
point where they were effectively beyond redemption. In hindsight early
intervention by Dowding could and should have defused the situation, but early
intervention did not happen.

Saturday, 20 December 2014

In fact the weather that year was so bad that it was June before
conditions hadimproved sufficiently for
the Tangmere Wing to begin the new offensive and to operate en masse. Once
again the enemy fighters kept out of the way of these large formations and as
before they were content to just pick off the occasional stray. Limited fuel
capacity meant that the RAF fighters could not fly very far inland and
consequently were unlikely to inflict much damage.

Douglas was frustrated by the lack of action and was furious when other
Wings, such as Sailor Malan’s Biggin Hill Wing, managed to score successes
while the Tangmere Wing ended up with nothing. This all changed somewhat after
22nd June following the German invasion of the Soviet Union, codenamed
Operation Barbarossa.

New tactics raised the level of RAF aggression and in addition to the
major goal of destroying as many enemy aircraft as possible, it was also hoped
that this increased aggression by the RAF would not only limit the number of
enemy aircraft being transferred to Russia, but would actually encourage the
Luftwaffe to withdraw fighters from Russia to meet the increasing attacks in
the West.

Circus operations became more complex and the Wings were in the thick of
things from late June right through July. The fighter Wings flew in
close-escort with small formations of bombers, giving close-support and
providing top cover. The aim was to draw up enemy aircraft before the main
force of the escort wing started to run short of fuel and had to turn for home.
If all went according to plan, the target-withdrawal wing would arrive to
engage the enemy just as the fighters of the escort wing were beginning to
leave.

If the weather was favourable, there would generally be two or three
sweeps almost every day. On days when the weather was bad, Douglas was in the
habit of mounting unauthorised Rhubarb flights. Ostensibly he and his section
would be engaging in ‘local flying’ but in reality he would lead them across
the Channel in search of trouble.

Wednesday, 17 December 2014

Sunday 15th September, although nobody knew it at the time, was to be the defining day of the Battle of Britain. The early mist slowly cleared and although the light cumulus cloud was enough to produce a little rain in places, visibility remained good, with a gentle westerly wind that moved round to northwest as the day advanced.At around 11.30 Göring launched the first wave of his morning attack of 100 or so aircraft, shortly to be followed by a further 150. It was a formidable force made up of Dornier Do 17s and Do 215s, escorted by Messerschmitt Bf 109s. They were flying at various heights between 15,000 feet and 26,000 feet.Defenders were scrambled and for about 45 minutes a fierce battle raged over east Kent and London. Even so, about 100 enemy bombers reached south and east London, with some actually being intercepted over the centre. Sixteen squadrons of 11 Group were initially involved, closely followed by five squadrons from 12 Group. Squadrons from 10 Group were also called in.242 Squadron was ordered off from Coltishall at precisely 11.22 and flew down to Duxford, where according to the plan, they formed up with 310, 302, 19 and 611 Squadrons and headed south towards the action. For once the timing was right and they were in an ideal position with respect to height and the position of the sun.Douglas led the Wing to patrol a flexible area over Gravesend. The three Hurricane squadrons, 242, 310 and 302 flew at around 25,000 feet, ready to meet the bombers, while the two Spitfire squadrons, 10 and 611, were a bit higher at between 26,000 and 27,000 feet, ready to deal with the fighters.In a space between noon and 12.30, a total of between 150 and 200 individual combats took place in an area of sky roughly 8 miles long, 38 miles broad and between 4 and 6 miles high. It has to be remembered these combats often took place at speeds of between 300 and 400 miles an hour. An enemy plane might have been intercepted over Hammersmith and destroyed over Dungeness. Many combats went as far as the French coast. Sgt J A Potter of 19 Squadron was involved in just such a chase, but unfortunately for him, having got that far he was shot down and ended up as a POW. Douglas later commented that: “at one time you could see planes all over the place and the sky seemed full of parachutes. It was sudden death that morning for our fighters shot them to blazes”.The 56 fighters of the Duxford Wing returned to base having claimed a total of 26 enemy aircraft destroyed, plus 8 probables and 2 damaged. There was hardly time to get their aircraft refuelled and grab a quick sandwich before they were ordered off again at 12 minutes past 2. Although the same five squadrons were involved, this time there were only 49 fighters rather than 56.

Tuesday, 16 December 2014

A book about the largest battle ever fought on English soil - the
Battle of Towton, one of the key turning points in the Wars of the
Roses. .
The murderous Wars of the Roses had already seen dukes, earls, lords
and thousands of commoners butchered as two branches of the royal
family struggled to gain firm control of the crown. The struggle came to
a head at Towton, Yorkshire, where Edward Duke of York with 30,000 men
faced Henry Duke of Somerset with 35,000. The battle that followed
proved to be especially vicious as scores were settled and blood flowed
like rivers. The result determined England’s history for a generation.
This book brings an exciting new look to the Wars of the Roses. The
course of the campaign is given, but the emphasis is on the Battle
itself and the men who fought there. There are detailed analyses of
weapons, tactics and strategies, tactical diagrams explain how the
troops formed up and moved, and a study of the commanders. The course of
the battle is followed with the aid of maps, relating to the ground
today. The aftermath of the battle, its effects and importance to the
progress of the war are then described.
The “Bretwalda Battles” series has been running with increasing success as printed books and as ebooks for five years.

Contents
Chapter 1 The Wars of the Roses
Chapter 2 Leaders at Towton
Chapter 3 Men, Weapons and Tactics
Chapter 4 The Battle of Towton - First Day
Chapter 5 The Battle of Towton - Second Day
Chapter 6 Aftermath

About the Author
Leonard James is an author of military books. He comes from a
military family that has fought in every major war since at least the
Crimean War, and probably before that. His forebears were mostly
cavalrymen, though his father served in the RAF. Leonard has made a
particular study of battlefields in Britain, walking over dozens of them
to get an eye for ground. He has also handled genuine and replica
weapons to better understand the use of pre-modern weapons and the men
who wielded them.

Monday, 15 December 2014

Warrant Officer Bernard
West had been engineering officer of 242 and Douglas decided to keep him. He sensed
that Mr West, as he always called him, would be the linchpin and indispensable
prop on which to build. West on the other hand knew that the relationship with
his squadron commander must be based on total understanding and regard. In the
same way that to Douglas his metal legs were something of an irrelevance, to Mr
West the important things about Douglas were his attitude and his service
credentials.

Bernard West was
fiercely loyal to his squadron and he knew that somebody was going to have to
sort it out and establish morale. He realised that Douglas would be an exacting
and uncompromising commander, but was prepared to support him 250%. Something
that Mr West realised from the start was that there would be big trouble if he
didn't get 242's aircraft strength and serviceability on the top line,

The problems were
immediate. The squadron had eighteen brand new Hurricane MkIs on its strength,
but no spare parts and no proper sets of tools to work with. When Mr West
reported this situation to Douglas the reaction was just as he predicted that
it would be. In modern parlance Douglas "went ballistic".

He sent off the now
famous signal to group headquarters, with a copy to Fighter Command HQ:
"242 Squadron now operational as regards pilots but non-operational,
repeat, non-operational as regards equipment."

It was only after he
had sent the signals that he told his outraged station commander what he had
done. Normal practice would have been to ask another squadron to lend a hand,
but Douglas was not like that. This was his squadron and as far as he was
concerned his needs were more important than any other squadron that might be
waiting further up the line.

The response from
Fighter Command came the same day. A squadron leader in charge of equipment
phoned to argue that there were shortages in many units and 242 ought to borrow
what was needed from other squadrons. Something of a shouting match developed
that resulted in both phones being slammed down.

The AOC flew down to
Coltishall to try and smooth things over and agreed to see what could be done.
Before anything could be done Douglas received a summons to Fighter Command HQ
at Bentley Priory for an interview with the C-in-C himself, Air Chief Marshall
Sir Hugh Dowding.

This could have meant
the end of a promising career for Douglas, but although the C-in-C made it
clear that he did not think much of Douglas’s signal, what really irked him was
the supply officer's assertion that he, Dowding, would be furious at what
Douglas had done. Dowding did not take kindly to other people predicting how he
would or would not react, least of all a comparatively junior officer.

The outcome was that
the offending squadron leader lost his job at Fighter Command, as did the
station equipment officer at Coltishall. 242 Squadron received its requested
equipment within 48 hours and became fully operational on 9th July 1940.

Sunday, 14 December 2014

Product Description

The Past, as they say, is Another Country. Now there is a guide
book to North America as it was during Revolutionary Times. Written by
Dr Lee Rotherham this book tells the modern reader everything they would
need to know when visiting North America 250 years ago.
Written as if it were a guide book to be used by a visiting
European, and illustrated, this book is the essential guidebook to
Revolutionary America.
Satisfied user Charles James Fox says “A gentleman is taught never
to run. He might make an exception when pursued by a band of Cree
warriors after his scalp. And why should you be wary of accepting an
invitation to a tea party in Boston, why might you want to find some
fur; why are the rebel colonies rebelling; why should you watch your
watch when you meet George Washington, and just what is the correct
etiquette for using a dessert spoon in a log cabin? The essential
visitor’s guide.”
So this handbook is part survival guide, part tome to assist in
cultural acclimatisation, part aide-memoire to help manage expectations
in what remains a frontier land.
The book contains added War of 1812 bicentenary flavouring and is
being launched to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the writing of
“The Star Spangled Banner”.

About the Author
Dr Lee Rotherham is an historian with two postgraduate degrees on
Québec. His survival skills were honed by idly wandering around Montréal
during its worst winter on record. An army reservist, it’s thus
appropriate that from his dealings with the Canadian Armed Forces he is a
Member of the Order of Good Cheer/L’Ordre du Bon Temps. This is a Nova
Scotia fraternity, originally set up by Samuel de Champlain, which
commemorates the terrible winters of the first colonists and the social
environment that got them through it. With beer, his accent betrays an
alarming French Canadian twang.

Saturday, 13 December 2014

Parallel to all this
was the increase in the military might of Germany and as international tensions
mounted, Douglas began to badger just about everyone he knew who could have the
slightest influence in getting him reinstated in the RAF and back to flying
again.

A great ally was his
old friend Geoffrey Stephenson, who by now was a staff officer at Adastral
House, home of the Air Ministry in London's Kingsway. Stephenson beavered away
for Douglas behind the scenes and was a great help.

Thelma was dead against
all this. She was horrified at the possibility of Douglas being shot down and
trapped in a crashing aircraft because of his legs. Thelma's mother agreed with
her. To her, what her dogmatic and aggressive son-in-law was proposing to do
was both unnecessary and unreasonable. All that it was doing was causing Thelma
endless turmoil and distress.

Douglas was resolute.
He had always believed that if you wanted something badly enough, the way to
get it was to go right to the top so he wrote to the Air Member for Personnel,
Air Marshal Charles Portal.

On 31st August, days
before the outbreak of war, Portal wrote a personal reply to Douglas. Although
he told Douglas he was too busy to see him and that he was not able to employ
him at the present time, in the event of war a new situation would arise and
Douglas would almost certainly be used in a flying capacity, provided the
doctors agreed.

Although positive, in a
guarded sort of way, this was still not enough for Douglas. What he was looking
for was immediate acceptance and his next target was Air Vice-Marshall Fredrick
Halahan, his old commandant from Cranwell. Halahan obviously remembered Douglas
and wrote to the head of the medical board at the Air Ministry saying that in
his opinion Bader was the sort of officer the service needed and if found fit,
apart from his legs, he should immediately be sent to the Central Flying School
and given a chance to prove himself.

Friday, 12 December 2014

As Britain moves towards exit from the European Union, the author warns
of a trap laid by the EU and how to avoid it. “The route to Brexit is a
Gordian Knot of a problem that requires an Alexandrian solution,” he
writes.
Brexit (British Exit) from the EU is moving up the political agenda,
but few have looked at the mechanism by which it might be achieved and
the problems involved.
The European Union’s process of ‘ever closer union’ is fashioned
like the jaws of a shark. The teeth slant backwards. Once inside the
mouth the only route is onwards down the gullet to digestion.
Membership of the EU has been deliberately constructed over five decades
and six treaties in order to make exit from the EU near impossible. It
is a Gordian Knot of a problem that requires an Alexandrian solution.
Article 50 is designed to put the EU in a strong position to
pressurise the would-be, leaving nation into accepting their terms of
exit. This detrimental dog’s breakfast is hardly likely to be what the
electorate have in mind when they vote in a referendum to leave the EU.
Once the decision has been made then it is better to deliver the
Alexandrian blow rather than endlessly fiddle with the strands.
In this book senior UKIP MEP Gerard Batten shows how the sword should be wielded to cut the Gordian Knot.

Gerard Batten was a member of the Anti-Federalist League 1992-1993
and a founder member of the UK Independence Party in 1993. He was the
Party’s European Election Organiser in 1994 and the first Party
Secretary (1994-1997). He has served on the UKIP National Executive
Committee at different times. He has fought eleven different election
campaigns for the Party over the years.

He was elected as a Member of the European Parliament for London in
2004 and re-elected in 2009 and in 2014. He has written extensively on
such subjects as Immigration, the Cost of the European Union, and the
European Arrest Warranty and the creation of a European system of
criminal law.

Wednesday, 10 December 2014

It was golf that brought Douglas to his second wife. He had met Joan Murray
some years before when they were partnered in a golfing competition organised
in support of the British Limbless Ex-Serviceman's Association. She had taken
the place of Douglas’s original partner who had to drop out.Joan and Douglas
were married quietly on 3rd January 1963 in a church near Coventry. The vicar,
the Reverend Tom Knight, was yet another of Douglas’s friends. In a former life
Tom Knight had been a Group Captain in charge of a bomber station. Like
Douglas, Joan had a great interest in helping people with disabilities. In
addition to her involvement with the British Limbless Ex-Serviceman's
Association, she was also one of the original volunteer supporters of Riding
for the Disabled, of which Douglas was an honorary life president.

Following their marriage Douglas and Joan received countless invitations
to speak and to attend events. They continued to fulfil engagements all over
the world although long journeys were now made by commercial airliners and not
by private aircraft. In most cases the main purpose of their journey was to
assist in the cause of the disabled and they continued to campaign vigorously
for people with disabilities. Douglas was a perfect example of how a disability
could be overcome and both knew that by meeting people with disabilities he
could plainly demonstrate what was possible.

In June 1976 Douglas received a knighthood for his services to disabled
people. This could have been a great embarrassment, because protocol dictated
that one had to kneel while being dubbed with the sword. Douglas knew that this
would be a recipe for disaster because he would certainly fall flat on his
face. As a result he was given special dispensation from the Queen to receive
his knighthood standing up.

Other awards were to follow.Despite his charity work Douglas still found time to maintain his
interest in aviation and in 1977 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical
Society.

Tuesday, 9 December 2014

A book about the bloody Battle of Lewes, fought in 1264 that was a key
victory for the rebels under Simon de Montfort who sought to limit the
powers of the king.
The sweeping victory of the rebels at Lewes had a profound effect on
England. A Parliament was summoned that for the first time included
commoners as well as nobles and clergy, the king was to be answerable to
Parliament and to a Council of Nobles and government documents were to
be published in English as well as in Latin.
The battle itself began on the downs northwest of the town when the
rebels launched a surprise dawn assault on royal scouts about where the
racecourse now stands. The fighting then spilled southward as the rebels
advanced and ended outside the priory with total defeat for the forces
of King Henry III and his son Edward (later Edward I.
This book brings an exciting new look to the medieval wars of
England. The course of the war is given, but the emphasis is on the
battle and the men who fought there. There are detailed analyses of
weapons, tactics and strategies, tactical diagrams explain how the
troops formed up and moved, and a study of the commanders. The course of
the battle is followed with the aid of maps, relating to the ground
today - much of which is little changed to the present day. The
aftermath of the battle, its effects and importance to the progress of
the war are then described.
The “Bretwalda Battles” series has been running with increasing success as printed books and as ebooks for five years.

About the Author
Local resident Maria Caulfield lives in the village of Falmer, just
west of Lewes. She has long had an interest in local history and has
been inspired by the great political reformer, Simon de Montfort, who
won his great victory for the people of England at Lewes nearly eight
centuries ago. She works as a Cancer Research nurse at the Royal Marsden
Hospital in London specialising in the field of breast cancer research.